MINUTES OF N4 MEETING Date: February 24, 2011 Participants: Amare H/Selassie Charlotte Macalister Catherine Pfeiffer Deborah Bossio Nancy Johnson Katherine Snyder Kees Swans Kindie Getnet Solomon Seyoum Ranjitha Puskur Tilahun Amede Tseday Ayalew Venue: IWMI Meeting Room The meeting started with a brief introduction of Nancy Johnson to the participants. Following was made update of the individual projects. Katherine Snyder gave the update for N2
The hydrology group has selected its micro catchments, 3/site
They are now waiting for different instruments to arrive
Two PhD students from AAU, Geography department are attached to focus on biophysical and socio economic/cultural data collection of watershed management. Attachment is will be with Ministry of Agriculture, SLM department. Supervisors will be from the Ministry, the University and Katherine from IWMI. This is also targeted to create natural linkage with the Ministry. The fund for the students will come from N5. Review of literature is being worked currently.
Livelihood group is to conduct a baseline survey which is designed by ODI. Included in the consideration to practice natural resource management are farmers, associations, research organizations, private sectors, Weredas and DAs. A consultant is also hired.
Regarding water productivity integration in livestock, two students are recruited to work on livestock and feed source
Following were raised some discussion points
Students should assess impacts of SLM intervention by working on areas with and without the interventions. Selected sites don’t have those interventions though it is possible to use nearby accessories. It was noted that much effort is yet to be done by supervisors to put the students in the right track to produce much of the work providing analysis, gap identification etc.
Suggestion was made to put up an interactive map for the three sites where all involved can use indicating what they are doing by different mechanisms. For this task it is said that it is important to identify the data available, what is needed , what is remaining, what part of the remaining can be done in house or by recruiting students. The map can be put up in the meeting room for the time being.
Some issues were also discussed regarding Innovation Platforms. Some sites are indicated to be not ready to be involved due to the small number of actors they have. Training and relationship building are marked as necessary. So far effort is being done to understand how the platform at the National level is working. Local platforms’ structure and what they are doing is said to be unclear. At times when discussion is made with communities’ issues that are raised may not be of any connection with the project’s objective and task. However it is still most essential to provide opportunities to meet the community to know what constraints are labeled as most crucial.
Catherine Pfeiffer gave the update on N3
Data driven similarity analysis is just produced
The targeting is to interpret which practice would be suitable where
The aim is to define how each character would contribute to the basin problem
Factors would be poverty & population, land & labor
Focus is to be fill limits of modeling are how to integrate information from catchment to basin scale, how to use optimization.
Dr. Teklu gave a presentation on Productivity issue. He discussed different elements like water productivity, run off, the need to assess crop type, detail soil characteristics, management practices in the specified area and how water productivity plus feed sources combine into livestock. In addition he detailed on the use of drainage as an option. Much discussion was made among participants on this idea and its pros & cons. He also gave indication what tasks needed to be performed to fill the gaps on data by recruiting students. (Presentation attached) Dr. Amare on his part mentioned that he has already contracted two students to work on livestock and feeding/feed source and demonstrate the linkage. He said he will cooperate with Lisa to look through data from the remote sensing. The issue of land cover map and its importance was discussed. Dr. Kindie briefs on the Economic sector progress. He said that he is working on a bio-economic modeling by integrating the biophysical element with economic modeling. This model is said to be non-linear. Factors on irrigation, rain-fed system and livestock will be encompassed into the model. Impact of rain water can be captured from the model. Basic economic factor to be considered is farming income. Effort will be made to integrate at a basin level. Secondary data on livestock and crop will be used. Secondly he dealt with the livelihood component for which data, qualitative and quantitative, he will approach Katherine. Finally it was suggested that a review of RMS must be produced project wide by making projects add inputs instead of producing individually. The following potential research points were raised to be seen along side.
Date: February 24, 2011
Participants:
Amare H/Selassie
Charlotte Macalister
Catherine Pfeiffer
Deborah Bossio
Nancy Johnson
Katherine Snyder
Kees Swans
Kindie Getnet
Solomon Seyoum
Ranjitha Puskur
Tilahun Amede
Tseday Ayalew
Venue: IWMI Meeting Room
The meeting started with a brief introduction of Nancy Johnson to the participants. Following was made update of the individual projects.
Katherine Snyder gave the update for N2
- The hydrology group has selected its micro catchments, 3/site
- They are now waiting for different instruments to arrive
- Two PhD students from AAU, Geography department are attached to focus on biophysical and socio economic/cultural data collection of watershed management. Attachment is will be with Ministry of Agriculture, SLM department. Supervisors will be from the Ministry, the University and Katherine from IWMI. This is also targeted to create natural linkage with the Ministry. The fund for the students will come from N5. Review of literature is being worked currently.
- Livelihood group is to conduct a baseline survey which is designed by ODI. Included in the consideration to practice natural resource management are farmers, associations, research organizations, private sectors, Weredas and DAs. A consultant is also hired.
- Regarding water productivity integration in livestock, two students are recruited to work on livestock and feed source
Following were raised some discussion points- Students should assess impacts of SLM intervention by working on areas with and without the interventions. Selected sites don’t have those interventions though it is possible to use nearby accessories. It was noted that much effort is yet to be done by supervisors to put the students in the right track to produce much of the work providing analysis, gap identification etc.
- Suggestion was made to put up an interactive map for the three sites where all involved can use indicating what they are doing by different mechanisms. For this task it is said that it is important to identify the data available, what is needed , what is remaining, what part of the remaining can be done in house or by recruiting students. The map can be put up in the meeting room for the time being.
- Some issues were also discussed regarding Innovation Platforms. Some sites are indicated to be not ready to be involved due to the small number of actors they have. Training and relationship building are marked as necessary. So far effort is being done to understand how the platform at the National level is working. Local platforms’ structure and what they are doing is said to be unclear. At times when discussion is made with communities’ issues that are raised may not be of any connection with the project’s objective and task. However it is still most essential to provide opportunities to meet the community to know what constraints are labeled as most crucial.
Catherine Pfeiffer gave the update on N3- Data driven similarity analysis is just produced
- The targeting is to interpret which practice would be suitable where
- The aim is to define how each character would contribute to the basin problem
- Factors would be poverty & population, land & labor
- Focus is to be fill limits of modeling are how to integrate information from catchment to basin scale, how to use optimization.
Dr. Teklu gave a presentation on Productivity issue. He discussed different elements like water productivity, run off, the need to assess crop type, detail soil characteristics, management practices in the specified area and how water productivity plus feed sources combine into livestock. In addition he detailed on the use of drainage as an option. Much discussion was made among participants on this idea and its pros & cons. He also gave indication what tasks needed to be performed to fill the gaps on data by recruiting students. (Presentation attached)Dr. Amare on his part mentioned that he has already contracted two students to work on livestock and feeding/feed source and demonstrate the linkage. He said he will cooperate with Lisa to look through data from the remote sensing. The issue of land cover map and its importance was discussed.
Dr. Kindie briefs on the Economic sector progress. He said that he is working on a bio-economic modeling by integrating the biophysical element with economic modeling. This model is said to be non-linear. Factors on irrigation, rain-fed system and livestock will be encompassed into the model. Impact of rain water can be captured from the model. Basic economic factor to be considered is farming income. Effort will be made to integrate at a basin level. Secondary data on livestock and crop will be used.
Secondly he dealt with the livelihood component for which data, qualitative and quantitative, he will approach Katherine.
Finally it was suggested that a review of RMS must be produced project wide by making projects add inputs instead of producing individually.
The following potential research points were raised to be seen along side.